So I'm safely back south of the border, with a ton of work to do. I'm also fighting esol, the uni's way of getting the blog-tubes to our rooms. They want you to run a little program, called CSA, to check that your system is secure and for it to phone home with that infomation. I run it... and it does nothing. Try again, and it does nothing. Pull apart the .app, find the actual program, and run it in the terminal made it spew some interesting output, including that it can't write to "~/tmp". Which is interesting, since I have a folder full of tempory files called... "~/tmp/". renaming tmp lets it work. Why it wants to use my home dir, rather than /tmp, and why it doesn't use tmpfile() is an interesting point. oh well, in these hands dur.ac.uk rests.
On a similar note, I see that dur.ac.uk is giving me a 6to4 ipv6 address, but that address isn't routed anywhere. I like this thinking.
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